Project Control Manager

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.

The role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced project control manager with a proven track record in robust cost and schedule management, ideally coming from a cost control background, to take on a high value portfolio of projects for a high-profile client.

Our clients and projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood's oil, gas & new energies business is built on a strong legacy of delivering large and complex projects for national and international energy companies across the globe. We have experienced teams, a proven delivery model and a strong reputation.

We are the market-leading provider of integrated and innovative solutions that challenge the status quo in the oil and gas upstream and midstream, onshore and offshore, gas to liquids and decarbonisation and electrification markets. We pride ourselves in steady and predictable delivery, setting our sights on an exciting growth trajectory.

Energy security, transition and supply have never been more important. You, our enabling teams, are at the very forefront of transformative projects that are providing sustainable power to generations to come. We are the ones to bring low-carbon concepts to reality.

• Meaningful and interesting projects: delivered to high profile clients across the energy sector
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion: we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business
• Competitive remuneration package: with regular reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Medical insurance: ensures inpatient and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment
• Group life and personal accident insurance: the company provides life assurance cover
• End of service gratuity: in line with UAE labor law, all employees are eligible for an end of service benefit
• The employee share plan: gives you the opportunity to purchase Wood shares and receive a match from the company
• Long service award: Wood values the commitment and loyalty of our people. Celebrating long service provides an opportunity for the business to demonstrate their appreciation of the hard work, dedication and many years' service of our employees at 5-year service milestones
• Commitment to continued professional development: development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
• Global connections: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession
• Energy Transition Academy: join a community of experts sharing your knowledge and gaining more exposure to a variety of existing and emerging energy systemsu2014delivered by experts in their field

The key objectives for this role are:

• Provides comprehensive cost, planning, scheduling and risk assessment support to assignments/project teams and clients, typically on smaller projects without dedicated project control discipline teams.
• Sets up and runs all required project controls systems, tools, and interfaces to enable the successful management and reporting of the project costs, schedule and risk on projects and assignments.
• Supports the service line/project manager in the collation, analysis and reporting of project cost, scheduling, and risk data.
• A wide ranging and hands-on role that interfaces with several key stakeholders across the project.
• Provides coaching and guidance to less experienced project controllers.

Responsibilities

Key accountabilities and responsibilities:

• Act as the focal point with the client and any contractor project controllers as appropriate, to ensure costs and progress are reported accurately, ensure alignment with the project reporting requirements and timely and accurate cost and progress reporting.
• Reporting of planned vs actual progress figures.
• Monitor cost and schedule impact of achievement/non-achievement of project milestones.
• Identification, monitoring and reporting against the project critical path providing early warning to the project manager of any potential slippages.
• Reporting of project costs and schedule data.
• Produce weekly and monthly project cost and planning status reports.
• Develop and maintain project work breakdown structure for specific scopes of work.
• Develop and maintain cost and planning control structures in alignment with project work breakdown structure.
• Manage the project work approval process in terms of accurate cost code allocation and initial budget set-up and approvals.
• Responsible for the timely control and forecasting of budgets and ensure that the impact of all change requests is properly assessed and included in the budget and schedules if applicable.
• Assist project accountants and billing specialists in the billing process and any other cost related queries.
• Assists with application of baseline and forecast installation unit rates and norms for estimating quantity change impacts.
• Supports earned value progress measurement.
• May assist with updates and changes to project quantities and reports on variances to baseline.
• Production and overall maintenance of project S-curves and histograms.
• Creation of the projects fully resourced, logic linked Gantt charts within preferred planning software to the agreed project and programme requirement.
• Perform progress updates of the project Gantt charts. Includes executed changes into project schedule.
• Monitor current progress and assess future schedule impacts to support project delivery.

Company Industry: Finance, Investment & Asset Management

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